Friday, December 03, 2010

Call Me Ishmael

Haaahvard is very particular about its applicants. It helps, for example, to have the surname Thayer, to have graduated from a parochial school in Cambridge, and to related by lineage to a member of the class of 1902 (documentation required). There are certain qualities that appeal to the committees. And I, apparently, do not fit specifications. Not my middle name, at least.

Repeatedly encountered errors tonight because:

Applicant middle or other name cannot contain any special characters.

My hyphenated middle name displeases the institution. Spaces didn't work either. I had to delete the space in between. And it all felt very Ellis Island.

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